Re: fuzz failures not generating bugs

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I would think so. It's bothered me for a while that we didn't have a way
> to distinguish between "brand new, nobody has looked at it yet" bugs and
> "solution identified, but nobody wants to work on it" bugs.
>
> CONFIRMED is "somebody's looked at it and determined that it's really a
> bug (as opposed to, for example, that's what it's supposed to do)";
> IN_PROGRESS is "solution identified and somebody's working on it".  There's
> no separate "solution identified, but nobody wants to work on it", or even
> "yes, it's a bug, but we haven't figured out the cause yet" state;
> CONFIRMED covers those two.

Yes, this is more precise than my definition. Launchpad provides TRIAGED
which is "confirmed with enough information to fix, but nobody is working
on it yet", but I haven't found it all that useful a state.


>  > Separating our current NEW bugs into either UNCONFIRMED or CONFIRMED
> states seems like the right way to do that.
> > While on the topic, I'd also love an "INCOMPLETE" state like Launchpad
> (for bugs that are waiting on the submitter for more information -- we seem
> to have a fair number of those), but I suppose one thing at a time :)
>
> Yes - a bug database I've worked with a state like that.
>
> It also had resolutions along the lines of
>
>         NOTABUG - "that's what the software's supposed to do";
>
>         NOTOURBUG - "it's a bug in some other software that we use (and
> that we can't or shouldn't work around)"


These would be nice.

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